Results for month: August, 2014

According to Amanda Ripley’s article, “Higher Calling: To improve our schools, we need to make it harder to become a teacher,” some American universities are beginning to treat teacher preparation like that of training physicians, pharmacists, pilots, and other professions by increasing the rigor of teacher preparation and making it harder to become teachers. Maybe […]

We normally expect that a kindergarten classroom will be decorated with colorful posters, maps, and student artwork. But a recent study indicated that trimming out the classroom may distract students, and compromise learning.

Headlines in the press have been not equivocated. The Telegraph, Tampa Bay Times, and Smithsonian all ran stories along the lines […]